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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519828" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Aging Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come and see the old poet<br>Laying in his bed of ashes and dust<br>His love in ruins<br>His mentality frozen by restless rust<br>His hungry heart emptied of it's fertile blood<br>His souls melodic purpose nearly gone<br>The mellifluous music now so silent<br>The end, of a once wonderful and powerful song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What happened to this poet<br>With dread you may ask, <br>The ancient story ofcourse<br>The evils of age and wear, and so damned many things out there<br>Working at his heart, fulfilling their wretched task.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When poets speak truth and beauty into this old world<br>Any breath may be their last<br>For so many evil spirits will stalk them<br>With an endless passion to haunt, from the past<br>The deepest hearts, so oft, become weary and tossed<br>As all about them seems dreadfully lost<br>And everything fearful and frustrating and unknown<br>Becomes thriving weeds where once, long ago<br>With such ease a radiant, eloquent garden had grown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still this old poet wrote<br>For was his vocation so to do<br>Even through the battles with doubt<br>He held on, ever true<br>Words from his heart<br>He rended to give<br>The conundrum being<br>It cost him his life, to fully live... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So look! Look deep<br>Here lays the old poet - in state<br>Having succumbed - like all the living shall <br>To mankinds unavoidable fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May all the aging poets forever<br>Rest in peace, and ever be blest<br>For the sempiternal words they lay upon us <br>- dug with pain from the depths of their souls <br>Are nothing less than the very best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(for: Townes Van Zandt)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Smoky+Hoss">Smoky Hoss</a><div class=q>
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Laying in his bed of ashes and dust
His love in ruins
His mentality frozen by restless rust
His hungry heart emptied of it's fertile blood
His souls melodic purpose nearly gone
The mellifluous music now so silent
The end,..."></div>
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